The Complete New Yorker DVD-ROMS and Tasini: Evil, Genius or Evil Genius?
If I understand it correctly, this Wall Street Journal article basically says that The New Yorker got around having to investigate repaying its contributors on The Complete New Yorker by using technology that reprints the pages as they originally appeared, a contextual requirement designed to allow microfilm.
The implications for comics reprints are obvious, so I wanted to note it here.